Book Shelf: Golf World Reviews A Variety Of Golf Books

The latest edition of GOLF WORLD reviews several golf-related books. Ryan Herrington notes longtime golf writer DAN JENKINS, who wrote "JENKINS AT THE MAJORS," covered "almost 200 major championships" during his career. The book, a "collection of his best original works -- selected and updated by the author -- presents six decades worth of Jenkins' humor, eloquence and personality," and also "provides images of many seminal moments in golf history." Jonathan Wall reviewed author JAMES DODSON's "A SON OF THE GAME," which chronicles Dodson's time at the Southern Pines Pilot newspaper and "details the relationship he forged with his son through golf." Wall also reviewed "FREDDIE & ME," by former Augusta National Golf Course caddie TRIPP BOWDEN, who was the "first full-time white caddie" at the course. Bowden chronicles his "30-year friendship" with former Augusta National caddiemaster FREDDIE BENNETT, and also "offers several little known tidbits about the club, providing a glimpse at Augusta National as you've never seen it" (GOLF WORLD, 5/4 issue)....Globe & Mail columnist Lorne Rubenstein has written, "THIS ROUND'S ON ME." The book is a collection of the favorite articles Rubenstein has written during his time with the Globe & Mail, ScoreGolf, Golf World, Travel & Leisure Golf, Golf Journal and other publications (THE DAILY)....SI's Dick Friedman wrote World Golf HOFer AMY ALCOTT, who co-wrote "THE LEADERBOARD" with golf writer DON WADE, "used her LPGA cachet" to gain entry to "high achievers in several fields whose connection is that they all love golf." The book is a "disarming collection of Q&A's with leaders of all kinds" (GOLF.com, 4/30).

MORE THAN A GAME: The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Jay Jennings reviewed MARSHALL JON FISHER's, "A TERRIBLE SPLENDOR," about '37 Davis Cup match between former U.S. tennis player Don Budge and former German tennis player Baron Gottfried von Cramm. Jennings wrote the case for the greatest match "has to be based on something more than simple drama," as the "confrontation between two opponents should also speak in a larger way about the world at that moment." In his "rich and rewarding" book, Fisher "makes a strong claim to greatest-ever status for Budge vs. Cramm in the Davis Cup." Cramm "had been interrogated by the Gestapo regarding allegations of homosexual activity," and "much of the tension in 'A Terrible Splendor' aside from the white-knuckle Davis Cup match, derives from Cramm's attempt to live and compete under Nazi suspicion" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 4/25).

GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES: In Tacoma, Dave Boling noted KJR-AM host Mike Gastineau, SeattlePI.com's Art Thiel and former Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer Steve Rudman have written "THE GREAT BOOK OF SEATTLE SPORTS LISTS." The book is a "primer in regional sports history that makes it worth being reminded that the Seahawks once traded three draft picks to get" former Seahawks QB KELLY STOUFFER. Thiel: "The book was perfectly timed; coming after the worst year in Seattle sports history" (Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE, 4/30).